As far as I understand, saving templates does not work like this:1) after clicking the save button, a template file is created.2) before restarting it is available in all games3) when the game is turned off or on, all the templates are deleted.4) we again have no saved templates.

hack: before restarting the game, remove the right to modify the file.Now the templates are saved, but the new ones can not be saved.

Hmm... I think I see something. It really does not like it when I tried to mess with the default truck template when I already had some stored templates from previous skirmishes. It... involves changing that default truck template to something else, saving that design, creating some more designs, deciding not to keep the design that was the default truck... or something like that. All I know is I have a really high success rate of encountering this bug when attempting to modify that default truck template that always reappears on each skirmish start.

i've not done anything with the default truck, but its interesting to know that the strange stuff doesn't just happen to me.

EDIT: is there a a list of what the unit designer calls the bodies, propulsion types and weapons anywhere, as i wonder about manually writing the designs in the template file and removing modify permissions, as a workaround, until the lovely people that make this awesome game happen can suss it out

namaan wrote:ok, I've attached the template file with this reply. The first two are put in by the design menu and work, the third is my attempt at manually punching in a design for Twin MG viper wheels. [...] whats wrong with it?? [...]

I spotted the following flaws:

naming the file 'template.json' instead of 'templates.json'

a brace in excess, at line 30, that prevents your file from being properly parsed.